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"Ain't No Half-Steppin'" is a 1988 hip-hop song written and performed by American rapper Big Daddy Kane. Released as a single from Kane's debut album Long Live the Kane, it peaked at No. 53 on the Billboard Hot Black Singles chart. The song samples "Ain't No Half Steppin'" by Heatwave, "UFO" by ESG, and "Blind Alley" by The Emotions. [1]
"Ain't No Half Steppin'" alone is featured on The Very Best of Big Daddy Kane, Marley Marl's House of Hits, two "best of" Cold Chillin' Records compilations and over five additional hip-hop hit compilations. [4] Notwithstanding "Ain't No Half Steppin'," The Very Best of Big Daddy Kane contains five songs from Kane's debut album. Allmusic's ...
Eminem references Big Daddy Kane in the lyrics to his song "Yellow Brick Road" from his album Encore, saying, "we (Eminem and Proof) was on the same shit, that Big Daddy Kane shit, where compound syllables sound combined", [22] and he quotes the same lines in his book The Way I Am—this illustrates how Big Daddy Kane had an influence on both ...
Much as Liquid Liquid’s “Cavern” built an early bridge between hip-hop and underground New York rock, Bronx dance-punk band ESG’s 1981 song “UFO” became an unlikely rap staple which ...
"Ain't No Half Steppin'" 1988 — 53 — — — Long Live the Kane "Set It Off" — — — 95 — "I'll Take You There" 1989 — 73: 21 — — "Rap Summary (Lean on Me)" — — 9: 52 — Lean on Me (soundtrack) / It's a Big Daddy Thing "Wrath of Kane" — — — — It's a Big Daddy Thing "Smooth Operator" — 11: 1: 65 — "I Get the Job ...
RIP Mister Cee," one fan wrote in reference to the Big Daddy Kane song "Ain't No Half-Steppin'." "Damn man #RIP to the Legend and good friend MR Cee Fly High my Brother," rapper Memphis Bleek wrote.
Doug E. Fresh's "Keep Risin' to the Top" also samples the main chorus of Heatwave's 1976 classic "Ain't No Half Steppin'," which Big Daddy Kane also sampled that same year for his song of the same name.
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